IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minneopa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: loamy substratum
  • User Site ID: S1973MN0331619
  • User Pedon ID: S1973MN0331619
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1619
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49861
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 43.9202957
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2612305
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 105N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: northeast corner
  • Location Description: in school yard
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN033—Cottonwood
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN033—Cottonwood County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43095-H3—Heron Lake NE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Minneopa
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy outwash over sandy outwash over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/3/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN161901
    A2—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN161902
    Bw1—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent fine faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN161903
    2Bw2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; single grain; very friable; 1 percent fine prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161904
    2C1—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) sand; single grain; loose; 21 percent coarse prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161905
    2C2—102 to 160 centimeters (40.2 to 63.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) loamy sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent fine faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN161906
    3Cg—160 centimeters (63.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; fragments.